Date: 9/28/20 Miles: 24.9Total Miles: 1709.2 The Red Desert of Wyoming is not a place you easily miss. At better than 9,000 square miles, you’d need only a pair of eyes to see it readily from space. And zooming down from space to ground level, you might have seen two specks ambling slowly across it….
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The Checkerboard
Date: 9/27/20 Miles: 29.8Total Miles: 1684.3 The massive expanse we’ve been walking through these past three days since Atlantic City is an unusual one. Neither forested wilderness nor arable farmland, but an arid and windswept region that pries apart the Continental Divide from nearly the border of Colorado to the foot of the Wind River…
The Folly of FKTs
Date: 9/26/20 Miles: 30.1Total Miles: 1654.5 The 100-meter dash is not for the slow-footed. It is the domain of the rocket ships of the human race and the winners are bestowed the title of world’s fastest man or woman. One simple question though: Why? Why 100 meters? Isn’t it arbitrary? Why not 50, or 40,…
Southeastern
Date: 9/25/20 Miles: 30.0Total Miles: 1624.4 Pancakes, coffee, sausage, eggs, pancakes, hashed browns, and more pancakes. That’s the way you kickstart a day of hiking, and our breakfast at Wild Bill’s certainly delivered. I can already picture my own look of ambivalence when faced with tomorrow morning’s breakfast protein bar. Shoving off from Atlantic City…
Wind of Change
Date: 9/24/20 Miles: 10.0Total Miles: 1594.4 As if bemused by the accelerating pace of our hectic lives, the natural rhythm of the world moves ever onward, inexorably slowly, one season slipping into another almost without our notice. It’s one of the many small joys of trail life—the rare attentiveness to even subtle changes in the…
